Redknapp officially appointed

[Geez]

Source: Official Site

The Club is delighted to announce that it has appointed Harry Redknapp as Manager.


A full announcement and statement from the Chairman, Daniel Levy, will follow shortly.

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woo

[dontcallme]

Welcome Harry we all hope you succeed.

[Stoof]

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[Dougal]

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[vicbob]

Holy crap Batman

[Dougal]

Another epic statement from Levy...

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Dear Supporter,

How quickly things change in football. Our pre-season form, our start to the transfer window and early summer signings had everyone optimistic for the season ahead. The last few days of that window and our poor start to the season has seen all that change. This has been a difficult period for the Club and many questions are being asked and much criticism levelled. I should like to update you on some important developments announced a short while ago, to answer some of your questions and also to outline our thinking as we look to improve our current position going forward.

We have faced many key challenges as we have progressed over the last few seasons and we have had to take important decisions at crucial times - without the wonderful benefit of hindsight and always under full public scrutiny. As such, they have been judgement calls. Some of our decisions and judgements may at times be unpopular with our fans but we always take decisions we believe to be in the best interests of our Club, at the time we make them, and for the right reasons. In many cases, it is simply not possible or practical for all of the factors involved to enter the public domain and I do understand that this can alter or impair the perception of why something has or hasn't been done.

Today, as formally announced by the Club, I have made one such important judgement call and in doing so I have taken some very difficult decisions. Relieving Juande Ramos, our Head Coach, and Juande's assistants, Gus Poyet and Marcos Alvarez, of their posts is not something I have undertaken lightly.

Unfortunately, our record of just three League wins since our memorable Carling Cup victory against Chelsea last February, combined with our extremely poor start to the season, led the Board and I to determine that significant change was necessary as a matter of urgency. We are grateful to Juande, Gus and Marcos for all their hard work - they are incredibly professional, committed individuals and I regret that their time in the Premier League has not gone as well as we had all hoped.

The English Premier League is an unforgiving competition - time was no longer on our side and was a luxury we simply could not afford. We have quite clearly not performed to the best of our ability for many months now and our poor run of form is not something we could allow to continue unchecked.

In appointing Harry Redknapp as our new manager, we are delighted to have secured the services of someone we have long since admired and whose track record and knowledge of all levels of football, including importantly the Premier League, is outstanding. I know Harry is relishing the opportunity of managing a Club he knows well, not least from his son Jamie's time here as a player and Captain, and of re-invigorating and restoring confidence to a squad of highly talented international players. With his great knowledge of the game and his excellent motivational skills, Harry has inspired his teams to consistently over-perform, whilst his preferred attacking style of playing the game sits comfortably with our Club's history, heritage and the type of entertaining football our fans want and expect to see.

We have spent around £175m on new players over the last 3 years. The purchasing of players is a critical aspect of our Club and, given our current position, it is essential that we go into the January transfer window with absolute confidence in the advice being offered to the Board. Following a meeting of the Directors and a full review of our football management structure, I can also inform you that Damien Comolli has left the Club with immediate effect. Damien will not be directly replaced.

In my opinion, and with the benefit that comes with running our Club with and without a Sporting Director in the past seven years, the successful management of a football club is not about structures or job titles. As in most businessess, it's about people: their personal qualities, their knowledge, their experience, their relationships, communication skills, interaction with colleagues, leadership and, of course, their ability.

In Harry, we are also accepting with his appointment that now is the right time for us to move back to a more traditional style of football management at our Club. one which we believe will be capable of initiating our climb back up the Premiership table and to maintaining our challenge in the UEFA, Carling and FA Cup competitions.

However, I should stress that we are not in this current position because of any single factor or any one individual. Human nature often dictates the need to find someone or something to blame, but in these circumstances we need all our energies to be directed instead to supporting the team and improving our League position. Nothing else matters at this time.

That said, and without dwelling too much on last summer, I do also want to take this opportunity to address some of the other concerns you have raised. Many of the questions I have been asked and much of the reasoning for our poor start to the season has centred on our striker options. I do not believe this to be the sole reason, but I do feel it is important to set out the facts once again regarding the sale of two popular and talented strikers: Keane and Berbatov.

Robbie Keane's departure was undoubtedly the shock of the summer. I personally had an excellent relationship with Robbie and he was one player that I always thought would end his career at the Club. I know you all felt the same. I was as disappointed as any of you when he informed me that he wanted to join what he described as his favourite boyhood club. Against this background and despite his obvious professionalism, our coaching staff felt that it would be very difficult to expect Robbie to continue to be such a positive influence in our dressing room when he so clearly wanted to leave us. The decision to sell Robbie was therefore not a financial one, although in such circumstances it was vital for our Club to secure the maximum possible value for a player of Robbie's ability.

The sale of Dimitar was an entirely different matter. Dimitar first intimated to Martin Jol that he wanted to join Manchester United after just on season at our Club - and just 10 days before the end of the summer 2007 transfer window. At that time, the coaching staff's preference was to let Dimitar go and for us to replace him. This was not something I would allow - at any price - as I felt that Dimitar's request was completely unreasonable. From that moment on, we obviously knew we had an issue and we spent many hours over the course of the season that followed trying to persuade Dimitar to stay. I rebuffed a number of approaches from clubs , including Manchester United, this May and again in early July. Despite press stories to the contrary, there was no extended period of negotiation with Manchester United and their July offer of £20m was not increased until they contacted us again in the last few days of the transfer window.

[Dougal]

The internal decision to sell Dimitar at the beginning of the window was premised on a suitable replacement being found and on the assumption that Dimitar couldn't be persuaded to change his mind. Under FIFA regulations, if a players signs a contract before his 28th birthday, he has only to serve 3 years of that contract before he can terminate it and join a new club. Whilst some compensation is payable under such circumstances the level of compensation is set by a third party body in accordance with predeteremined factors, and in Dimitar's case would have been but a small fraction of the fee we received from Manchester United. But even this was not the final determining factor in our decision to part company with him. Despite the potential cost to the Club and knowing that our efforts to sign an additional, experienced striker had failed, the final decision on whether or not to sell Dimitar was not a financial decision but a footballing one. It was felt that he had not been a positive influence on the pitch or in the dressing room and that this would continue.

The timing of the actual transfer of Dimitar was completely immaterial and unconnected to our bringing in a replacement for him. We had been aware for a long period that he was likely to leave and our negotiations to get the best fee for him was independent of our work to replace both him (as we did with Pavyluchenko) and Robbie, with experienced strikers.

The ultimate failure - as I have said before - of our dealings in this summer's transfer window was not about the departure of two good strikers, or because we have operated a structure that happens to have had a Sporting Director and a Head Coach, or because our financial parameters are too rigid - after all, let´s not forget that we did bring in much quality to enhance our current squad. Quite simply, we failed because we were not as decisive or as successful in identifying or replacing the two strikers as early as we should have been. Perhaps these insights will help once and for all to de-bunk the myths that have been perpetuated around these transfers.

There is also an inaccurate perception that our Club is run entirely for profit and that football is secondary. Success on the pitch is the sole determinant to the future of the Club and its financial stability, so it would be entirely counter-productive to have anything other than football as our first and foremost priority and it is ridiculous to suggest otherwise. At a time when football clubs are criticised for losing money and for their debt levels, I am surprised that we should be criticised for running our Club on a sound commercial basis and for making a profit. Thank goodness we do make a profit because it has significantly supported the progress we have made over the last seven years and has helped to make us one of Europe's most secure Clubs. I make no apologies for the fact that we reinvest the Club's positive cash flow in both players and infrastructure.

And so back to looking ahead and to redress our current position.

Firstly, in Harry, we have secured the services of an excellent Manager of proven Premiership quality. Harry will be working with a squad of quality internationals. We must not forget that this team, without the benefit of three additional players at the time (Pavlyuchenko, Corluka, Campbell), gave a more than creditable performance against the current League leaders. I have spoken to the senior players in recent days and I know the players share our frustration and I know they will dig deep to produce the performances we know they are capable of - they have our full support - and support for the team is absolutely critical at this time.

We have all been subjected to much criticism - myself, the Board, coaching staff and players - having now made what I considered to be necessary, sweeping changes to our football management team, we must re-assert ourselves, regain our focus, and answer our critics in the best way possible - by winning games again.

Secondly, we must prepare ourselves to take advantage of the January transfer window. Harry's experience of the UK and international transfer market will be of critical importance and I shall be looking to Harry for clarity on our priorities. As Chairman, and as previously in our former structure, I must, ultimately, rely on the knowledge and judgement of my technical staff to give me a clear football-based view and recommendation on our transfer targets.

I can assure you that everyone here, from the Board to our most junior staff member, shares the frustration and disappointment of the season so far, but I can also assure you that all of us in every area of the Club are doing what we can to help the players to produce the level of performance and the consistent good results our fans expect and all of us crave.

We have achieved too much over the last seven years - three successive qualifications for Europe, a League Cup win, Training Centre planning permission - and still more to announce - to allow this to be overtaken and thrown away overnight. We have suffered a set back and we have taken strong action.

I have received numerous e-mails and letters from supporters offering advice and suggestions on how the Club should be run and what we should and should not do. I do appreciate the time people take to write to me and when the e-mails or letters are constructive and not abusive, I can assure you that I read as many as I can. And I do take notice of your views. Indeed, I have been heartened by the fact that the over-riding response from our supporters has been one of determination to get behind the team. Too often in difficult times supporters can forget that their support is needed even more than ever. The team will tell you how much of a difference it can make to them on the pitch. White Hart Lane needs to once again become the fortress it was, not so very long ago. With your tremendous support it can.

Finally, I know I am sometimes criticised for appearing too business-focused, too uncommunicative, or simply for not being emotional enough when it concerns our team. The majority of our fans know that it's simply not my way to seek a high profile. I do not crave publicity, neither do I believe it is necessary to do my job. I would prefer our team to make the headlines, for the right reasons. We now have a manager who is a great communicator to players, fans and the media alike and I shall also, personally, look to keep you all informed and your questions answered as we progress through the season.

Your support has never been more important - and we are grateful to so many of you for the messages of support and encouragement the Club has received during this difficult period. Now's the time for all of us to pull together and to get behind Harry and the team.

Yours, Daniel

[lis spur]

interesting to see who his backroom staff will be "donkey adams"anybody.
all this and an extra hour in bed amazing.
at least this man can get us out of the relegation zone.
any hoo thanks for the carling cup juande but at 20 mill it was a tad expensive.

[Galliano]

best news we have had all season!! i for one am delighted!
this is where our season starts!!
all the best harry!!

[Satnin]

Having just read Mr Levy's letter to the fans, at last the club may have it's identity back. Keith Birkenshaw was right, there did used to be a football club over there. Now's the time to get it back. For so long managers have been 'fed' players by the sporting directors. We nearly got it right with Frankie but since then we seem to be trying to breed success with so called big time players. If what is believed then Harry will be responsible for choosing the players and asking Danny boy for the cash. This can only be good. ( Harry just confirmed this on Talk sport just now) Only reservation is that Harry doesn't pay for em with a brown envelope on a park bench in Enfield under the cover of night. Know what I mean Harry?

COYS:grin:

[KingKeano]

Seeing as we've sacked everyone who will be 'Arrys assistant?

[The Original Yiddster]

How very Spurs..........

We secure the services of the most highly reputed coaches in Europe then manage to royally screw him in the transfer window..........we then sack him and replace him with 'honest' Harry whos record as far as I can see comprises of 2 victories over Man U (one at Bournemouth and one last year which effectively handed Portsmouth the cup) and a Portmouth promotion.

Hardly the credentials of somebody who is going to take us to the next level. If the removal of Ramos was necersary we should have have made a short term appointment until the relegation threat was removed and then in the summer appointed either another highly valued coach who has actually won/achieved things or my prefered approach and go for a young up and coming coach such as Roy Keane.

Redknapp is 61 ffs what has he got left 3 years he if says it himself ' my last job until I retire'.

I will give him my grudging support but effectively we have settled for mid table mediocrity for the foreseeable future........if he manages to keep us up as I seem to remember a certain HK going to Southampton in a similar position and managed to take them down

[KingKeano]

P.s i havent been this excited since the c.c. final

[Dougal]

I don't think Harry will take us to 'the next level'. But he might just restore us to the one we just dropped from.

[vicbob]

Mixed feelings now the shock has worn off. I think Harry is what we need now, but i do see it as a step down from the optomism when we appointed a "world class manager" this time last year, who was going to take us to the next level. Still we have gor rid of the DOF position so maybe we can get back to being run like a proper club.
I just cant hep feeling it may take us a few years to get back to where we were 12 months ago. Top 4 anyone? Not for a while yet.

[Bonjour]

Holy fuck.

[SpursMadDave]

Great news, welcome Harry....

Hpefull he can shore up our leaky defence by bringing in Tony Adams as assisant and Sol Campbell as captain... :bowdown:

[ero1x]

Hpefull he can shore up our leaky defence by bringing in Tony Adams as assisant and Sol Campbell as captain... :bowdown:


Are you serious?? Eek

[yid4eva]

EekEekEek:bowdown::wink::-):grin::-|:hump:
Jesus !!!!

[Stoof]

With a track record of making teams over-achieve. Well if others are to be believed then we have the 5th best squad in the league. Over-achieving would be higher than fifth, no?

Give a good go, Sir Harry. I'm looking forward to understanding post-match interviews again!

[Jonesey]

Levy had to do make this statement and fair play to him for doing so. We talk about Ramos losing the dressing room - Levy was losing the fan-base and that's much more important for any club.

I know some people on here are disappointed with 'Arry's appointment but I think it's potentially a stroke of genius. He has a knack of targeting solid, players who perform and, more importantly, persuading them to join him and play for the team.

We will have a LOT of money to spend in January and if we can just get a few wins under our belt to give us a fighting chance our new year could for once be a different story.

I just hope he has spotted what many of us have about the team:

1. That Jenas isn't good enough either as a player in the heart of our team or as a leader - stripping him of his captaincy and automatic starting place needs to happen quick.
2. That King cannot be relied upon and that we need to start nurturing the Corluka/Woodgate partnership. Maybe time to restrict King's appearances to Cup competitions only.
3. That Woodgate or Hutton would be a much better option as Captain right now.
4. That the team needs to play a conventional 4-4-2 to restore balance and enable better movement off the ball.

It'll be interesting to see if he replaces Gomez in January, who our DM will be (because he will make sure we get one) - and whether we'll see Defoe back at the Lane.

[belsunz]

very good news. Relief more than anything. Harry will turn things round i am sure. He will give us our Tottenham back. Lots of respect for Levy for this major and drastic decision. That's business.

[ikan]

We should have done this long time ago .... sacking Commoli and removing the position of DOF from the board. Waiting to see who will be the assistant manager. Won't be too worried about Harry's age .. I believe he still have at least 5 years in him. I hope he will be doing his own transfers during the January Transfer Market and lastly ... Harry give chances to youngster and he is willing to take a gamble in the youngs one ... something which our previous managers are reluctant to do. I hope we will be able to see more of O'Hara and Huddlestone. Time for Bent to be supplied .... the British way!

[northampton_yid]

Having had a few hours to digest the news, i think we have appointed the best man for the job. Considering our current league position, bringing in another foriegn manager with no premier league experience would be a disaster. We now have a manager that takes no shit. We have a manager who is very astute in transfer dealings. We have a manager who's knowledge and experience is second to none.


WELCOME HARRY REDKNAPP.

[Bonjour]

The pressure at Spurs will give old twitchy a heart attack.

[KingKeano]

i said in work on fri that i would love to see harry in, an maybe jamie in as assistant????

[The Original Yiddster]

i said in work on fri that i would love to see harry in, an maybe jamie in as assistant????

He has already said that his son aint coming........Kevin Bond will be his assistant according to the NOTW interview

[BringBack_leGin]

Glad he's in.

Now let's sing Jermain Defoe is a YIDO every game until January... you think that might get the message across?

Jokes aside, we have a 30 game season effectively. We have a good squad, regardless of certain shortages. Certainly a better squad than Hull have for goodness sake.

Let us throw all out support into this and back the team for every minute of every game.

Also, judging by previous uses of the likes of Joe Cole, Nico Krancjar, do not be surprised to see (if he is even rated) Modric being given a permanent spot on the left of midfield, at least for the forseeable future. Whether Bentley or Lennon play on the right, who knows, but Redknapp has always played fast attacking football so I don't think we'll be dissappointed with his brand.

For those who are saying "what has he ever done" and "why no world class manager", tell me this... how is a manager meant to acheive something great if never given the opportunity. He has more than deserved the chance after his successes with West Ham and Pompy. Ferguson got his chance after similar success with Aberdeen to what Redknapp has had with Portsmouth, it is just that Ferguson got that chance when he was still young, while Redknapp has had to wait till he is 61. Let's face it, he should have been England manager instead of McLaren, but it didn't happen.

I for one think that this is an appointment we should have made years ago, perhaps when Hoddle first left, and I just hope that it hasn't been made too late in the day.

Oh yeah, Defoe returning would be nice as well.

[The Original Yiddster]

Glad he's in.

Now let's sing Jermain Defoe is a YIDO every game until January... you think that might get the message across?

Jokes aside, we have a 30 game season effectively. We have a good squad, regardless of certain shortages. Certainly a better squad than Hull have for goodness sake.

Let us throw all out support into this and back the team for every minute of every game.

Also, judging by previous uses of the likes of Joe Cole, Nico Krancjar, do not be surprised to see (if he is even rated) Modric being given a permanent spot on the left of midfield, at least for the forseeable future. Whether Bentley or Lennon play on the right, who knows, but Redknapp has always played fast attacking football so I don't think we'll be dissappointed with his brand.

For those who are saying "what has he ever done" and "why no world class manager", tell me this... how is a manager meant to acheive something great if never given the opportunity. He has more than deserved the chance after his successes with West Ham and Pompy. Ferguson got his chance after similar success with Aberdeen to what Redknapp has had with Portsmouth, it is just that Ferguson got that chance when he was still young, while Redknapp has had to wait till he is 61. Let's face it, he should have been England manager instead of McLaren, but it didn't happen.

I for one think that this is an appointment we should have made years ago, perhaps when Hoddle first left, and I just hope that it hasn't been made too late in the day.

Oh yeah, Defoe returning would be nice as well.

doesnt the fact that nobody has taken a chance on him until he is 61 not concern you?......it concerns the hell out of me.
The guys forte is making small clubs stable and more sucessful relative to there size. I do not put Spurs in that bracket. This appointment is the single biggest gamble Levy has made yet

[infamousyiddo]

quite a frank, honest letter from levy. For levy to sack ramos, commoli et al took bollox.

hope redknapp can take us forward. PLEASE COME BACK DEFOE, and id love to see diarra!!

[Legacy]

So nice to see the word "manager" instead of "head coach"

[GetSpurredOn]

Posted this at the end of the Ramos sacking thread, but seems more appropriate now Redknapp has been officially confirmed.
I thought when Ramos signed on we were destined for big things, we had a manager on par with the big four. But Carling cup aside, our performances have been nothing short of inept, our form post cup win was absolutley shocking, and nothing has changed going into the start of this season. I still had confidence that Ramos, Poyet and co could have turned it round, but I'm not sure if that was just blind faith and hope. It may look like the whole affair is a car crash of an event, but give Levy credit for making the decision to try and halt the slump, because frankly despite my hopes, realistically I couldn't see an end to the string of poor performances. At least it has been dealt with quickly, manager sacked and replaced in less than 12hrs, no hanging around with uncertainty.

I thought the DOF system was a good system, but since Arnesen and Jol parted ways with Franks defection, our DOF and Manager have never been on the same page, and having them in tandem is key to the setup working, Commolli must take the blame for that as he inherited Arnesen's choice of manager, but when he got his choice in Ramos, things still seemed strained from the outside and Commolli's signings have not been a total success have they. Time to move on and get behind the new manager.

My mate text me late last night to tell me that Commolli and Ramos had gone, only got the message this morning. My thoughts instantly turned to Roberto Mancini as I'd read a newspaper article in the week claiming he had rented a flat in London in advance of tying up a job in the capital, they hinted it was QPR, but I had a sneaking feeling it could be us. I expected to put the tv on seeing us linked with numerous big name managers from accross europe, Rijkaard etc. Seeing us as good as having signed Redknapp, my intial feeling was one of disappointment, but after getting used to the idea and reading comments on here, the thought is growing a bit more attractive. He turned Pompey round when he went there for his second stint and they were staring down the barrell of relegation. He seems to get his teams disciplined, together and organised, and that's what we're missing.the games I've watched recently we've been lacking direction and more importatntly cohesiveness, players don't seem to be able to pass to eachother, they're not on the same wavelength. Redknapp will bring them together as a unit, and at medium sized clubs he has a good record, now comin to one of the league's bigger outfits, he seems to have massive enthusiasm to join us and turn things round from the brief comments I've read, he want's a chance to prove he can be as succesful with a big club as he has elsewhere, many feel its his lack of experience with a big club that has held him back form the England job. He seems to be joining us with genuine excitement, ambition, confidence and desire to succeed, and that can only be a good thing, his mood will be infectious, lifting the whole squad hopefully.

As for assistants, the departure of Poyet and Alvarez tends to suggest that Redknapp has demanded to join on his own terms with his own backroom staff. Maybe that's what we've been missing, one of my few criticisms about Ramos apart from his continued tinkering with the lineup, was he always seemed so quiet almost resigned to the fact that he had to tow the party line given the DOF situation, Rednknapp will make the job his own. I expect announcements over appointments of assistants to be made over the coming days, and historically I'd expect Adams to be joining given he was Harry's current assistant, and from recent stories I've read, Redknapp rates him highly. But along with the potential signing of Adams, and let's be honest our defence needs some guidance, and Adams was a top centre half in a miserley Ar5ena1 defence, but along with him, I expect a former Spur to join to placate the fans, and my money would be on either Redknapp jnr, or maybe the one and only Teddy Sherringham given his time worked with Harry at Pompey and also his Spurs links, he has been vocal about his desire to return to Spurs in a coaching capacity.

Now on to today's game, and loads more conjecture about who Harry will sign first? Here we go again!

[Sputic]

The guy has been cnuting us off for years and now you're all bending over to welcome the wanker to the Lane.

[gloryglory]

How very Spurs..........

We secure the services of the most highly reputed coaches in Europe then manage to royally screw him in the transfer window..........we then sack him and replace him with 'honest' Harry whos record as far as I can see comprises of 2 victories over Man U (one at Bournemouth and one last year which effectively handed Portsmouth the cup) and a Portmouth promotion.

Hardly the credentials of somebody who is going to take us to the next level. If the removal of Ramos was necersary we should have have made a short term appointment until the relegation threat was removed and then in the summer appointed either another highly valued coach who has actually won/achieved things or my prefered approach and go for a young up and coming coach such as Roy Keane.

Redknapp is 61 ffs what has he got left 3 years he if says it himself ' my last job until I retire'.

I will give him my grudging support but effectively we have settled for mid table mediocrity for the foreseeable future........if he manages to keep us up as I seem to remember a certain HK going to Southampton in a similar position and managed to take them down

He IS a short term appointment till relegation is avoided. But we had to make an appointment and we couldn't have a "caretaker".

I agree that Redknapp won't take us to the "next level", but Ramos clearly wasn't going to. Anyone who thinks Ramos isn't at least partly responsible for the mess we're in is delusional. So too is anyone who thinks that sacking Comolli and keeping Ramos/Poyet would have turned things around.

[gloryglory]

Interesting by the way to read that Jol wanted Berbatov to leave in summer 07. Wonder where we'd be now. In the end it was most likely Berbatov who forced Jol out, so would Jol still be in charge? My guess is yes, we wouldn't have a cup, we would have scraped into Europe through the league, and this season we would have invested heavily without selling half the squad.

[The Original Yiddster]

He IS a short term appointment till relegation is avoided. But we had to make an appointment and we couldn't have a "caretaker".

I agree that Redknapp won't take us to the "next level", but Ramos clearly wasn't going to. Anyone who thinks Ramos isn't at least partly responsible for the mess we're in is delusional. So too is anyone who thinks that sacking Comolli and keeping Ramos/Poyet would have turned things around.

Redknapp has signed a 3 yr contract and plans to be here until he retires hardly just here until relegation is avoided

[gloryglory]

Yes, but 3yr contracts typically last a year or so, no more. It's like prison sentences - nobody is expected to serve the whole thing.

The point is that if you bring in someone and you say out loud that it's only short term, nobody plays for them. Look at Kinnear.

[tcyrus]

How very Spurs..........

We secure the services of the most highly reputed coaches in Europe then manage to royally screw him in the transfer window..........we then sack him and replace him with 'honest' Harry whos record as far as I can see comprises of 2 victories over Man U (one at Bournemouth and one last year which effectively handed Portsmouth the cup) and a Portmouth promotion.

Hardly the credentials of somebody who is going to take us to the next level. If the removal of Ramos was necersary we should have have made a short term appointment until the relegation threat was removed and then in the summer appointed either another highly valued coach who has actually won/achieved things or my prefered approach and go for a young up and coming coach such as Roy Keane.

Redknapp is 61 ffs what has he got left 3 years he if says it himself ' my last job until I retire'.

I will give him my grudging support but effectively we have settled for mid table mediocrity for the foreseeable future........if he manages to keep us up as I seem to remember a certain HK going to Southampton in a similar position and managed to take them down



Christ Almighty !
what a Sunday,Ramos gone and me agreeing with Yiddster !
Championship coach for a championship team
The hole thing STINKS !

[riversmonkey]

I am surprised by the negativity on here. Harry has been linked to the club a heck of a lot over the last five years and on more then one occasion he has strongly hinted his desire to manage the club, in short he has a soft spot for us.

A decent appointment.

[hotteamtn]

We needed someone to lift the sense of gloom that Ramos cast over our club, could not think of many better equipped to do that than Harry.

[Lilywhite_Shayne]

HARRY HOTSPUR ... it's a sign!!!

Hope he brings Defoe back with him :D

[Nads]

I just hope we let Harry have total control, choose the best men for the job and do it his way. He is better suited to our policy than Ramos and Comolli, and could be seen as Jol and Arnesen in one (much cheaper) pay packet! It just shows how far we have fallen since they were both here. The board are to blame for that and they appear to be doing something about it, at last.

I'm not saying Redknapp is the saviour but the logic behind this appointment makes much more sense to me.

COYS!

[Floyd]

A English speaking Manager ...(yes,yes,yes)
Hopefully the players will now understand what they need to do...

[Lilywhite_Shayne]

A English speaking Manager ...(yes,yes,yes)
Hopefully the players will now understand what they need to do...
:hump:

[fazthfc]

Not that I think it matters but does anyone remeber what Redknapp was saying about our Spurs fans a few weeks ago after the Judas abuse? :whistle:

I agreed with him then though and he never tarnished all Spurs supporters with the same brush.

[Bonjour]

Not that I think it matters but does anyone remeber what Redknapp was saying about our Spurs fans a few weeks ago after the Judas abuse? :whistle:

I agreed with him then though and he never tarnished all Spurs supporters with the same brush.

I'm not sure exactly what he said at the time, but yesterday evening he was heard to say 'ker-ching!'.

[tRiKS]

I don't think Harry will take us to 'the next level'. But he might just restore us to the one we just dropped from.

Well put. Excatly what i think too. We won't be a top 4 club under harry but If we get out of this mess you can see us being competitive in the league for places 5-7.

The letter from Levy does answer a few questions and does make me feel better about him.